Final Cut for Teaser Trailer 'Memento Mori'

Link to our teaser trailer 'Memento Mori':-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcEdt849ySk

Final Website

Link to our Final Website homepage:-

http://parallelpictures.wix.com/mementomori

Final Film Poster

For our final Film Poster, we have decided to use the poster experimentation 1 that we created all together. This is because we feel that this poster best represents our film, as it includes a lot of elements that we have used in our film trailer, for example the polaroid pictures that are all pinned to the wall and also the colours that were used. We also decided to use this film poster, as its very original as most film posters are not in the shape of a polaroid picture.

Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Question 4

Poster feedback

We asked 11 people for their opinion on the poster. We asked 4 questions which was based around what they liked, what they thought we could improve, what genre they thought the film was by looking at the poster and why they thought it was this genre. The genre is clearly presented through the poster with almost everyone asked chose crime. 

Results

What genre would you say the film was from looking at the poster?
Crime 8
Thriller 2
Realism 1

Name one thing you like about the poster?
Use of the polaroid image 6
Effect on the photo 4
Set up of the credits 1

Is there anything you would change?
Make the tagline easier to read 3
Colour of the tagline 2

Twitter Feedback

Once our trailer was completed we uploaded it onto the group twitter account and sent it directly to other media enthusiasts inviting them to comment on the finished piece. These were a couple of the responses:

Editing Schedule

Previous to 20th January we were filming for our trailer. The red boxes indicate the time that we were editing the footage for our first draft and after receiving feedback from a sample audience on 11th February, the green dates represent the editing for the final cut of the trailer. Editing dates include 

- Putting the footage together 

- Adding sound

- Adding titles and other credits

- Special effects work (including green screen editing)

The blue and yellow dates are when we were working on the ancillary tasks (the blue is the poster and the yellow is the website). These dates include doing work such as

- General designs for both

- Poster and website experimentation

- Image sourcing

- Adding credits and titles

Poster survey

Using a tally, I asked 20 people which poster out of three designs they thought should be used to advertise our film trailer. It was clear from the results that the first poster design was favourited was Poster 1 which obtained over half of the votes over posters 2 and 3.

From the most popular choice, I asked what caused them to choose that poster. The most frequent answer was that there was a link between the poster and the trailer as in the trailer, clips of the film are shown through Polaroid images and in the poster, stills from the film are shown on images within a Polaroid image which is framed by the general information included on a poster such as the age certificate, etc. Although from the other answers, thus poster also clearly shows the genre and teases the viewer by showing small parts of the film in the stills.

Potential Website Homepage

This is our draft for our potential website homepage. We decided to stick with the Polaroid theme as we have used this throughout our texts (trailer and poster), however we changed the background image to the detective to portray more of the conventions of the genre, Mystery. Once we have completed our final trailer we will upload it to the website and replace the video that is currently there which is the default Wix video. 

Parallels to inspiration

Fades from Panic at the Disco//Nicotine

Zoom transitions from The Chemical Brothers//Let Forever Be

One shot continuity from Taylor Swift//We are never getting back together

Analysis of film website: Sherlock Holmes

Tutorial: Wix

We have been encountering problems when trying to create our website including how to change certain text, etc. Therefore we have used a tutorial uploaded by the Youtube account 'BiggerPockets' which has enabled us to successfully edit titles and headings to the page as well as helping us to add images and in cooperate our trailer into the design.

Poster Experimentation 3

This is our third film poster experiment. We decided to stick to theme of using Polaroid pictures, as its a massive aspect in out film trailer and it also reflects the films genre of a mystery-realism. In this poster we decided to use a scattered effect of the polaroids instead of focusing on just one, to make it look more like the detectives desk in the film trailer.

Poster experimentation 2

This poster in cooperates the dark themes of the trailer through a still frame from the trailer of the detectives office under a spotlight. With less a less saturated colour scheme for the image, the colour of the title and coming soon is a bright red to capture the viewer's attention with the conventionally less seen text such as credits and copyright being a mid grey to emphasise the title, etc. The title also has a space between each letter to allow it to cover a larger amount of the page.

Poster Experimentation 1.

This is our very first film poster draft for our film trailer. We are experimenting with the idea of using the template of Polaroid picture for our film poster. We have used a still that we took when filming for the background, which is showing different Polaroid pictures displayed in the detectives office, hinting to the audience what genre it is. We used the different shades of red for the colour of the text, to complement the colour of the image and also to imply the dark undertones of the movie. We used different shade for the title to make it stand out to the viewer. 

Links between posters and websites

Aspects of film websites

First Draft - Evaluation Feedback

From showing our first draft to an audience of 16-19, we asked them to fill in a questionnaire relating to our film trailer. From the feedback we found that we got positive feedback and most that most people got the idea of what the film is about.

We  handed out a questionnaire to the audience members, giving them a chance to give us any positive or negative feedback about our film trailer.  

We included these questions:-

1) What do you like about the trailer?
2) What genre do you think the trailer is?
3) Do you think that it is theatrical or teaser trailer?
4) Do you feel that the trailer is to small?
5) What do you think we could improve?

The one question that we will focus on from the questionnaire is about what we can improve.

What we found out/need to improve:-

• From these two questionnaires, we can see that some people feel that the trailer was theatrical and some a teaser. This means that we need to make it more of a teaser trailer, as this is what we aim to make. 
• We also had a mix of answers in relation to the genre of our film. As some people said horror, crime, social realism, drama and detective. From this we can see that we need to make it more obvious that our trailer is a mystery realism. 
• That people are satisfied with the length of the trailer. 
• That we need to include some more sound over some of the scenes - the part where it starts to pick up pace.
• That the music finishes to early. 
• To add some dialogue.
• That we could add some text throughout the trailer. 

What people liked about the trailer:-

• The green screens
• The graphic match.
• The SFX into the photo.
• Post production
• The music
• The cuts/shots
• Photographs

By Nicole Moulder

First Draft

This is our first draft for our film Trailer, 'Memento Moir'.